Category Archives: Local issues

For a number of reasons, the legal rights meeting planned for tonight is severely oversubscribed. We have been overwhelmed by the response and if everyone who has booked turns up, it will simply not be possible for everybody to get in.

However, we are doing everything we can to make sure that we get the information to as many people as possible. We are planning a second meeting for the new year, in a much bigger venue. Also, we are going to broadcast the meeting on Ustream for anybody who cannot make it. This will also be available online after the meeting.

In the London borough of Islington, there have been more restrictions to boaters pushed by the Council. It has been argued by Sukky Choongh-Campbell, the Air Quality Officer at Islington Council that the trial period for Islington visitor moorings should be ‘extended to all parts of the canal in Islington’. It was also argued that the trial period, which took place earlier this year, should be introduced permanently.

For a number of reasons, the legal rights meeting planned for tonight is severely oversubscribed. We have been overwhelmed by the response and if everyone who has booked turns up, it will simply not be possible for everybody to get in.

However, we are doing everything we can to make sure that we get the information to as many people as possible. We are planning a second meeting for the new year, in a much bigger venue. Also, we are going to broadcast the meeting on Ustream for anybody who cannot make it. This will also be available online after the meeting.